This week President Biden issued broad vaccine mandates requiring all firms with 100 or more employees to require COVID immunization or weekly testing of workers, requiring most health-care facilities that accept Medicare or Medicaid to vaccinate employees and mandating all federal employees and federal contractors be fully vaccinated. Biden also requested the resignation under threat of firing of Trump appointees to military academy boards, including Kellyanne Conway and Sean Spicer, who are threatening to sue in response. The Justice Department is suing Texas over its new abortion restrictions, arguing they are unconstitutional; meanwhile the Supreme Court of Mexico ruled that it is unconstitutional to criminalize abortion. Richmond, VA removed the statute of Robert E. Lee from Monument Ave. The fraud trial of Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes began.
This week the world reached 225.1 million COVID cases and 4.6 million deaths, of which the US accounted for 41.8 million of these cases and 678,000 deaths. 209 million Americans (63 percent) have received at least one dose of the vaccine and 178 million (54 percent ) are fully vaccinated.
For us, things were relatively quiet this week. On Sunday we had dinner at Katherine's to celebrate Nora's birthday (we opted not to spend the night fearing a relapse if we overdid things). Labor Day we met up with the Telfair-Chas to watch Shang-Chi – currently ranked as Nora's favorite Marvel movie and solidly in Owen's top three. The kids started back to school on Tuesday and managed to attend each day (though not without some help to ensure they didn't oversleep). Grandpa Fawcett left for a visit to Iowa with Aunt Katherine and was replaced by Ducky. Elaine hosted a bunch of the 7th grade Stuart-Hobson moms for a happy hour. Allen and Elaine got their flu shots while the kids finished their birthday thank-you notes.
And while that may all seem pretty boring, after last week we'll take it.
(To see all of this week's pictures, click here.)
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